#SwapItLikeItsHot III: Thrift Store Swap

There are plenty of things I look forward to throughout the year: birthdays, holidays, pumpkin spice latte day… and #SwapItLikeItsHot is RIGHT up there!!! This little collaboration started about a year ago with 10 of my blogging friends, and now we’re on #SWAP 3 and there are 33 of us participating!! The premise? Everyone goes off a-thrifting. Yard sales, flea markets, thrift stores… you name it. For less than $15, come up with something to send along to swap with another blogger. A few weeks of tinkering and hot glueing and welding and weaving and… everyone posts their makeovers!! Cutting to the chase… I LOVE it. I am always amazed at not only the goodies people send each other, but also the creativity of all the makeovers.

The rockstar otherwise known as Trisha from Black and White Obsession sent me a TREASURE TROVE of stuff. I’m pretty sure she cheated and everything set her back $200. Just sayin’.

Let’s start with this vase. For those of you who love yourself some yellow, I’m sorry. I don’t. (This picture makes it look prettier than it was…)

So I spray painted it with some primer. I liked the flat white so I used primer and left it at that. The geometric pattern of this vase was what I loved the most, so I traced each facet with a gold paint pen. Cool, right?

These little storage jars are moderately in the craft fail category, but everyone likes a good craft fail.

I stumbled across this post on Pinterest a while ago. Seemed simple enough. I’m long on nail polish these days. The premise is that you drip the nail polish onto the surface of the water and swirl it around to marbleize the colors. Dip your glass container down into the water and ooohhhh…. aaahhhhh. Crafting magic.

Well… I’ll let you decide whether I cast any spells with these. I’m not sold, but… better than nothing. These can go up to the kid’s art center to store paper clips and stickers or something.

The last two items are my favorites. I’ll start with the copper bowl. This requires nothing. I pinned some fun macrame plant holders here, but ultimately ran out of time and love how it looks just styled all purty with this fern. (Update… I did eventually make those macrame plant hangers… love ’em.)

Trisha’s hilarious and this is what all of my items were shipped in. It’s metal and nothing super sturdy, but… after some intense consideration (crafting is no joke, afterall), I decided to add the box to my makeover list!I snagged a set of rainbow grosgrain ribbon from Amazon (affiliate link) and then just used craft glue to wrap them around the box. With my assistant of course… you can see her little hand reaching up to “help.”

How do you like it now?! I’m letting Eleanor use this as a way to stash her ‘finished’ artwork. There are so many things ‘in progress’ around here that I never know what can stay and what can go.

I really love how the box came out and the copper bowl is just gorgeous as a planter. I had a similar marbelizing nail polish fail trying to do Easter eggs with my daughter. Ridiculous mess. I don’t get how it works. Such fun, sorry to miss this round!

You are the #SwapItLikeItsHot goddess!! I am in awe of that amazing ribbon box… I mean… wow!! And what you did with that vase!! Gold and white is a classic combo 😉 Thanks for organizing another incredible round, and for inviting me to join in the fun!! I <3 Swap Week!

Everything came UNDER $10, promise! It really was a reeeally good thrifting day, ha!! I may have shed a tear giving up that copper bowl.

Hot dang, everything is just over the top. I’d say that vase has to be my favorite! That rainbow box though, pretty close second. I was secretly hoping that you would have recovered/re-purposed the awkward round pillow into a proper neck pillow with that black and white fabric. Although the stripes were a little to wide.

HAHA! That’s what they all say. 🙂 And the copper was a true gift! I owe you one. And you’re giving me WAAAAAY too much sewing credit to think I could have pulled that off. THanks for the awesome scores, girl! xx

You did a great job with the goodies that Trisha sent you. I love the makeover you gave that not-so-pretty vase and really love how you added ribbon to the storage box. This is such a fun challenge and I’m enjoying seeing what everyone received and how they transformed each piece.

Charlotte, I LOOOOOVE that rainbow ribbon box! It’s incredible! And the white and gold vase was such a great idea! Thanks so much for inviting me to join in this round of Swap it Like it’s Hot! It’s been so much fun!!!

Such a difference, right? The “wood” could have worked in a different space, but for the art center… bring on the color! I felt bad about the vase when I read your post about how much you love yellow… oh well. :/ Thanks for joining the fun!!
xx

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Lover of color, wrangler of chaos, thrifter of all the things.

Hi, I'm Charlotte! I'm fixing up our 100 year old house and artfully hoarding armchairs in the garage. I love color. I love flea markets. I love a little mess. My days are spent writing, painting, sanding, laughing and negotiating with our 5 kids.
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